gas
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der. Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos) Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)der. Dutch gasbor. English gas Borrowed from Dutch gas, coined by chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont in Ortus Medicinae. Derived from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); perhaps also inspired by geest (“breath, vapour, spirit”). Doublet of chaos. First attested in 1648.
- borrowed from gas
Definitions
Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if…
Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.
- A lot of gas had escaped from the cylinder.
A chemical element or compound in such a state.
- The atmosphere is made up of a number of different gases.
A hob on a gas cooker.
- She turned the gas on, put the potatoes on, then lit the oven.
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Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process
Methane or other waste gases trapped in one's belly as a result of the digestive process; flatus.
- My tummy hurts so bad – I have gas.
- But anyone with that many large brown birds aroost in his cranium and that much gas in his bottom was clearly not a well person.
The supply of natural gas, as a utility.
A humorous or entertaining event, person, or thing.
- Two more girls came in, one in bright pink stretch pants and the other in purple. “Man this place is a gas,” said pink.
- No it really doesn't matter at all / Life's a gas / I hope it's going to last
- Money, it's a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
Frothy or boastful talk
Frothy or boastful talk; chatter.
- Bang, little boy, stop with the gas / Little T, man he chats up his ass
A fastball.
- The closer threw him nothing but gas.
Arterial or venous blood gas.
To attack or kill with poison gas.
- The Nazis gassed millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
- He never fully recovered after he was gassed on the Western Front.
To use poison gas in (a volume or area) to attack or kill someone or something.
To talk in a boastful or vapid way
To talk in a boastful or vapid way; to chatter.
- […] (it was the town's humour to be always gassing of phantom investors who were likely to come any moment and pay a thousand prices for everything) — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. […]”
- "Well don't keep on gassing about it," said Digory.
To impose upon by talking boastfully.
- I went shop and the boss man said "Don't pay me it's fine" and I said ...(whaaat): "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam" ( don't gas me), "You ain't gotta gas, I'm gas fam".
To emit gas.
- The battery cell was gassing.
To impregnate with gas.
- to gas lime with chlorine in the manufacture of bleaching powder
To singe, as in a gas flame, so as to remove loose fibers.
- to gas thread
Gasoline, a light derivative of petroleum used as fuel.
Ellipsis of gas pedal
Ellipsis of gas pedal; accelerator, throttle.
An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as…
An internal virtual currency used in Ethereum to pay for certain operations, such as blockchain transactions.
- gas fee
- Gas is the fuel of Ethereum. Gas is not ether–it's a separate virtual currency with its own exchange rate against ether. Ethereum uses gas to control the amount of resources that transactions can use[…]
- The average “gas fee” – transaction cost – of an Ethereum transaction is between US$85 and US $156, according to crypto.com data.
Marijuana, typically of high quality.
To increase the fuel flow to a vehicle's engine in order to accelerate it.
- The cops are coming. Gas it!
To fill (a vehicle's fuel tank) with fuel.
Of high quality.
- This food is gas.
Comical, zany
Comical, zany; fun, amusing.
- Mary's new boyfriend is a gas man.
- It was gas when the bird flew into the classroom.
- The other models were gas fun, though they were all a bit hoity-toity.
A commune in Eure-et-Loir, France.
A city in Kansas.
plural of Ga
Acronym of group A Streptococcus.
Acronym of general academic strand, a strand under the academic track in senior high…
Acronym of general academic strand, a strand under the academic track in senior high school.
Acronym of gear acquisition syndrome
The neighborhood
Derived
air gas, antigas, bag gas, base gas, blast furnace gas, Blau gas, bog gas, bottled gas, breathing gas, Calor gas, camping gas, carbonic acid gas, carrier gas, CN gas, coal gas, coal seam gas, coke oven gas, combined gas law, cooking on gas, cooking with gas, CS gas, degas, drip gas, exhaust gas, Fermi gas, filling gas, flue gas, fossil gas, freedom gas, galaxy gas, gasalier, gas and air, gas and gaiters, gasbag, gas balloon, gas bar, gas bladder, gas boat, gas bottle, gas-bracket · +175 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at gas. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at gas. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at gas
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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